> You mean period Russian? Or do you care if it's modern? If not, below is some simple stuff I remember from Russian class in college.
> (Pardon the atrocious phonetic spelling. Cyrillic does NOT transliterate into Roman letters well.)
> ZDRAST-vuy: Hello (informal, to one person)

late P or completely OOP.
More period is Zdrav bud' - literally "be healthy", actually "hello".

> Zdrast-VUIY-tchye: Hello (more formal, or to multiple people)

Same.

> KAK VUIY puzh-ee-VAY-yet-tchye?: How are you?

Completely OOP. Not used in modern Russian either. It is the calc from How do you do - and no less formal than that.

> puh-ZHAL'-stah = Please (also, "you're welcome")

simpler is Proshu (analog is the Polish - Proshe, but in Russian the stress is on the 2nd syllable)

> SPASS-see-bah: Thank you
> ees-veh-NEE-tcheh: Excuse me

ee-z-vee-nee. Above is given the plural - polite "plural" form of addressing (originally, the dual) is at least a century OOP. Even the tsar was addressed in the singular - zdravstvui, zdrav bud', eezveenee.

> GOSS-pod, or BOY-ar: Lord ("moy" afterwards, for "my")

Gospod' is the Lord. God. No human was called like that. The word afair is a borrowing from the Gothic.

Gospodin, vocative (in address) - Gospodine (gos-po-dee-nie)

Boyar means differrent things in early and late period: first it meant just something like "senior host" of teh Knyaz's Druzhina. Later it was just the name of teh high aristocratic class. It all depends.

>
> DA-ma, or boy-ar-EE-na: Lady ("mo-YA" afterwards, for "my")

Gospozha. Dama is the OOP borrowing from the French. "Moya" is the calc from the "MY lord" or "MY Lady" and was never used in Russian, be it P or OOP.

It's a terrible salad of Russian phrases of dofferent fields - from youth slang of 1960s to litearture cliches, with at least half dozen misprints. IT IS NOT PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS HARDLY RUSSIAN!!!!!!

> You mean period Russian? Or do you care if it's modern? If not, below is some simple stuff I remember from Russian class in college.
> (Pardon the atrocious phonetic spelling. Cyrillic does NOT transliterate into Roman letters well.)
> ZDRAST-vuy: Hello (informal, to one person)

late P or completely OOP.
More period is Zdrav bud' - literally "be healthy", actually "hello".

> Zdrast-VUIY-tchye: Hello (more formal, or to multiple people)

Same.

> KAK VUIY puzh-ee-VAY-yet-tchye?: How are you?

Completely OOP. Not used in modern Russian either. It is the calc from How do you do - and no less formal than that.

> puh-ZHAL'-stah = Please (also, "you're welcome")

simpler is Proshu (analog is the Polish - Proshe, but in Russian the stress is on the 2nd syllable)

> SPASS-see-bah: Thank you
> ees-veh-NEE-tcheh: Excuse me

ee-z-vee-nee. Above is given the plural - polite "plural" form of addressing (originally, the dual) is at least a century OOP. Even the tsar was addressed in the singular - zdravstvui, zdrav bud', eezveenee.

> GOSS-pod, or BOY-ar: Lord ("moy" afterwards, for "my")

Gospod' is the Lord. God. No human was called like that. The word afair is a borrowing from the Gothic.

Gospodin, vocative (in address) - Gospodine (gos-po-dee-nie)

Boyar means differrent things in early and late period: first it meant just something like "senior host" of teh Knyaz's Druzhina. Later it was just the name of teh high aristocratic class. It all depends.

>
> DA-ma, or boy-ar-EE-na: Lady ("mo-YA" afterwards, for "my")

Gospozha. Dama is the OOP borrowing from the French. "Moya" is the calc from the "MY lord" or "MY Lady" and was never used in Russian, be it P or OOP.

It's a terrible salad of Russian phrases of dofferent fields - from youth slang of 1960s to litearture cliches, with at least half dozen misprints. IT IS NOT PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS HARDLY RUSSIAN!!!!!!

bye,
Alex

Tim Nalley

I ve always said that if I were either Tsar or Velikii Kniaz, I d have a herald sing me into court, big basso voice like a cantor in an Orthodox church. I just

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I've always said that if I were either Tsar or Velikii
Kniaz, I'd have a herald sing me into court, big basso
voice like a cantor in an Orthodox church. I just love
the coronation scene in Eisenstien's Ivan the
Terrible, Part 1.

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> I've taught a class on making a Russian persona that
> included some basic
> Russian phrases, just to help people get deeper into
> their own persona story.
>
> But I, too, have had only had limited success using
> Russian during events. I
> can sometimes get away with a Russian phrase where
> the meaning would be
> blatantly obvious, i.e. "Thank you" but most people
> still aren't prepared to
> play along. The best way I've found is to throw out
> the Russian, and then
> immediately correct myself with the English
> translation, pretending that I said
> the Russian accidentally and then caught myself. It
> helps expand people's
> horizons.
>
> Sofya la Rus
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> Quoting LiudmilaV@...:
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> > I'd like to hear from soneone for whom it worked.
> I know plenty of phrases,
> > but I find that using them just baffles people. Th
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Take Care-I was looking for some of these too and maybe Alexski will speak up if there are any that are way totally ignorant---here is a link written by some russians to english speakers who can't fake the accent right. For Persona development. It covers how to say ruski sounding "the" vs. "take" ect. http://www.sdandi.net/essays/R-accent

Danks Cole

[Clip your posts] Hey Amber... That site is a great idea....thanks alot! Vlakh [Clip your posts]

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Hey Amber...

That site is a great idea....thanks alot!

Vlakh

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